Clothes-pin.



JEWEL ERWIN, 0F COALINGA, CALIFORNIA.

CLQTHES-PIN.

- Specification of Letters Patent.

{Patented Mar. 21, 1911.

Application filed April 3D, 1910. Serial No. 5B8,743.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it. known that I,JEWEL ERWIN, residing at Ooalin a, in the county of Fresno and State of Califbrnia, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Pin, of which the follow ing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in that type of clothes pins formed of a single piece of spring wire, and it has for its object to provide a pin of the character stated, simple and inexpensive, and which is espe-' 'cially designed for being conveniently applied to the clothes line and in such manner that it will not be readily detached fromthe line by the pull strain of the clothes when fluttered by the wind or by handlirtg.

My invention also has for its object to provide a bent wire pin in which special provision is made. forclamping the clothes on the line, and for holding pieces of ap parel independent of direct engagement with the line.

With the abovearid other objects in view,

my invention consists of a single piece spring wire clothes pin that embodies the peculiar shape and arrangement of parts hereinafter described in detail, specifically pointed out in the claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which 4 i Figure 1, is a perspective view of the pin. Fig. 2,.is a similar view showing several of the pins applied for use. Fig. 3, is a cross section of thesame on the line 3-3 on Fig.1 and shows how it is used for supporting an article not engaging the line. Fig. 4, is a face view of the pin. Fig. 5, is a view that shows my improved pin as hung on the line when not supporting clothes.

My improved pin is formed of a single piece of spring wire, and near one end it is turned to form a spring loop'or eye Z which forms a handle for forcing the pin down over the line at, and also as a finger piece for pulling the pin off the line as de-' sired. That. end of the wire next the loop or eye Z is curved slightly outward and it forms one part b of a clamp. the other or main part a of which is provided by extending the wire from the eye or loop Z down parallel with the member I), then back and parallelwith itself, such a bending forming a fiat main clamping member, presently ent sizes and the shape modified to suit and.

again referred to. 1 I The strand portion a of member a extends up to a point preferably in line with the uppe'rend of the loop at which point it is bent laterally but in the plane of part a to a point beyond the clamping member a 'and thence down parallel with such member a to a point below it, at which end it is bent laterally as at c, and inwardly at right angles to, but in the plane of the member a to form asupplemental clamping finger c, which projects over and beyond the clamp (1,

its free end being bent upwardly and backwardly to form a clamping tongue d that extends back of the clamp a, it, with the member a forming a clamping means.

Since the mm of which my in is bent up,

in practice, is spring wire, it ollows that at everybend the tension of the several memhers is strengthened and. hence a firm gripping action is acquired when the opposing clamping portions are slightly spread apart.

From the foregoing, taken in connection with the drawings, the ease of application iii) and advantages of my special form of pin will be readily apparent.

Attention is directed to the showing of the spring 'loop and the clamp member 6 which has its angle y or the point where it merges with the spring loop forward of the loop so that'a seatz is formed between the part 1 the loop Z and the member a, in which the line a: slips and is held when the pin is shoved down onto the line as best shown in Fig. 3, by reference to which it will also be noticed the spring coil has its inner edge 10 in the plane of the side members of the fiat or back strands and hence it forms a stop to limit the downward movement of the pin onto the line, and as they line passage to the seat c is restricted normally less than the diameter of the line a", it follows that the pin once on the line, it is always held thereon until forcibly removed.

Another but important advantage found in my construction of pin when hung on the line is, it need not be removed to apply it for clamping the clothes, since all that is necessary is to steady the pin on the line by grasping theloop portion, see Fig 3, to facilitate slipping the garment up through the lower end between the main clamp a and the back clamping portion, as shown in the said Fig. 3. 1

My improved pin may be made in differ:

may be galvanized, nickeled or otherwise Having thus described mj invention, what end of the clai npingl body being bent into a Iclaim is: spring 100p dispose in a plane at right an- "As a new article, a clothes pin formed of gles to the clamping body, the free end of a single iece of spring wire, 0ne end of the 100 'terminatin' in a combined guide 15.

5 which is ent to form a, clamping member, and a c ampin mem er that cooperates with comg rising a tiansvegse portiofil1 and an upd the aforesald c amping body. war in inwar an rearwar ro'ecte finger, the stran from the clampiilgmdmber ERWIN' being bent at right angles back and forth Witnesses: v

10 to form a clamping body that. e06 erates v S. D. Pon'rna',

A with the clamping finger back of it, t 1e free J. R. BAIRD, Jr. 

